Five Images of Union: How Mystics Across Traditions Described the Inner Path

Five images mystics used for inner union: the ladder, the beloved, the desert, the lamp, and the marketplace. A background guide to the mystic path. Mystics have always had a problem: the thing they wanted to describe would not fit into ordinary language. So they reached for images. A ladder, a beloved, a desert, a lamp, a marketplace. Each image is a small window onto an experience that resists definition. This article uses those five images to give background on the mystic path as it appears across religious traditions. It is a general guide, not a summary of any specific book, and it claims no knowledge of what any particular volume contains. The occasion is a title called The Billionaire Mystic (https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=cbntEQAAQBAJ), whose subtitle refers to a reillumination of the mystic path and the inner union of the soul. Whatever approach that book takes, the imagery below will help you recognize the older material it is speaking with. Get the book: Google Play Books · Apple Books — The Billionaire Mystic by Dr. Ajarn Robert Shumake.